Automatic Mutual Recognition (New South Wales) (Exemptions Combat Sports) Declaration 2022 (Cth)

Automatic Mutual Recognition (New South Wales) (Exemptions – Combat Sports) Declaration 2022

I, the Honourable Matt Kean, Treasurer, make the following Declaration.

Dated: 24 November 2022                                         

The Honourable Matt Kean MP

Treasurer

Contents

1  Name........................................................................................................................................ 1

2  Commencement........................................................................................................................ 1

3  Authority.................................................................................................................................. 1

4  Definitions................................................................................................................................ 1

5  Schedules................................................................................................................................. 1

6 Exemptions................................................................................................................................ 1

7 Repeal........................................................................................................................................ 2

Schedule 1—Repeals  3

Automatic Mutual Recognition (New South Wales) (Exemption – Various) Declaration 2022 (No. 3)       3

1  Name

This instrument is the Automatic Mutual Recognition (New South Wales) (Exemptions - Combat Sports) Declaration 2022.

2  Commencement

(1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument including the Schedule	1 December 2022

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under 42S of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992.

4  Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Mutual Recognition Act 1992.

5  Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

6 Exemptions 

(1) For the purposes of paragraph 42S(1)(a) of the Act, a registration in column 1 of the table in subsection (3) of this section is excluded from the operation of automatic deemed registration in New South Wales.

(2)For the purposes of subsection 42S(2) of the Act, column 2 of the table in subsection (3) of this section sets out a statement of the risk to consumer protection, the environment, animal welfare or the health or safety of workers or the public in relation to each registration in column 1.

(3)The table is as follows: 

Exemptions for the purposes of paragraph 42S(1)(a) of the Act
Item	Column 1  Registration	Column 2  Statement of risk
1	Registration under the Combat Sports Act 2013 (NSW)	Significant risks to consumer protection, combatant health and safety, and public safety.  The Combat Sports Authority (NSW) and the NSW Police Force would have reduced ability to properly supervise and regulate combat sport industry activity in NSW through combatant and industry participant probity assessments. This could pose a health and safety risk to combatants, and damage public perceptions of the field’s integrity and increase the likelihood of organised crime infiltration.

7 Repeal

The whole of this instrument is repealed at the end of 30 June 2023.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Automatic Mutual Recognition (New South Wales) (Exemption – Various) Declaration 2022 (No. 3)

1  The whole of the instrument

Repeal the instrument